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Taurus said
That toll is bonkers!

The Maple Street bridge in Spokane went from a dime to a quarter and the payoff date was delayed by years because people stopped using it.

$1.25 in the 20's? They just didn't want to ever pay it off, did they?
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When you look deeper Gov Huey Long tried to buy it for the state, but the owners refused, so Gov Long funded the bridges on what is now Hwy 90, and a few years after the state bought the Hwy 11 bridge for less than 1 mil.